Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale

Andrew M. Carton; Karren Knowlton; Constantinos G. V. Coutifaris; Timothy Kundro; Andrew Boysen

doi:10.5465/amj.2018.1019

Academy of Management Journal 2021

Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale

Andrew M. Carton¹; Karren Knowlton^2,3; Constantinos G. V. Coutifaris⁴; Timothy Kundro⁵; Andrew Boysen⁵

¹ California University of Pennsylvania · ² Dartmouth College · ³ Dartmouth Hospital · ⁴ The University of Texas at Austin · ⁵ University of North Carolina

Abstract

One of the most effective ways leaders can promote change is by generating visions with image-based rhetoric (“make children smile”). By conjuring visual snapshots of the future, leaders paint a po...

DOI: 10.5465/amj.2018.1019
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Painting a Clear Picture while Seeing the Big Picture: When and Why Leaders Overcome the Trade-Off Between Concreteness and Scale

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